Constant rebooting after power loss

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote:

> On Fri, April 1, 2011 6:29 am, Marko Lerota wrote:
> >  I read that ZFS don't need fsck because the files are always consistent
> on
> filesystem regardless
> > of power loses. That the corruption can occur only if disks are damaged.
> But not
> > when power goes down.
>
> Complete nonsense. The information you read was false.
>

 No, it's really not.  ZFS's lack of recovery tools at least in the
beginning were basically non existent.   This is because ZFS uses a COW
model with an atomic data management unit design which by it's nature
addresses thing like fsck, and sudden power loss.  However, things outside
of a FS's control still allow corrution to happen so as UPS is just as
important with ZFS as your traditional FS.  Perhaps more important because
the difficulty from recovering from some types of pool corruption.

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Adam Vande More